From conspiracy to enlightenment...
What if the CEOs of health and long-term care insurance companies, whose bonuses depend upon increasing profits reached their last resort to decrease costs and now must encourage patients to hasten dying?
What if they found a research physician who craved fame and fortune for his two contributions? —A computer program that allows totally paralyzed patients to commit suicide, and a “trio” of prescription medications that are lethal when combined, but individually can slip under the radar of the Drug Enforcement Agency. To produce a video documentary to influence patients and doctors to hasten dying, only one component would then be missing: their star.
This patient would deliver an eloquent, passionate, and persuasive speech just before he voluntarily demonstrates that Physician-Assisted Suicide is peaceful and patriotic. A long search leads to a decorated war hero who is nearly quadriplegic from end-stage Lou Gehrig’s disease. His mind is clear and his rhetoric is charismatic, but there is one potential obstacle: his undying devotion to his feisty daughter.
The doctor’s plan is to psychologically manipulate the patient into believing it is his own idea to volunteer for Physician- Assisted Suicide. His assistant, an evil male nurse well versed in more brutal methods of persuasion, wants instead to threaten the patient’s daughter. She is dating a young doctor who becomes her only hope…
The couple’s desperate attempts to save their own lives as well as the patient’s lead them into a maze of end-of-life ethics and physician bias. To emerge, they must learn how a father’s love can transcend even death itself.
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